North Carolina Senate Race in Dead Heat

North Carolina's race for Senate is too close to call, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll showing Republican incumbent Richard Burr and Democratic opponent Deborah Ross tied only a day before the election.

• Burr: 47 percent.
• Ross: 47 percent.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Democrats still have a chance at picking up the seat. If Hillary Clinton wins the state, Ross can ride Clinton's coattails to victory despite not being the party's preferred candidate, Attorney General Roy Cooper, who decided to run for governor instead. Cooper is currently leading Republican incumbent Pat McCrory by three percentage points, according to Quinnipiac.

"The U.S. Senate race in North Carolina is even closer than the presidential contest there, with Sen. Richard Burr and Democratic Challenger Deborah Ross deadlocked at 47 percent each," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement.

"When you throw in the governor's contest in which Democrat Roy Cooper is on the favorable side of a too-close to call race with GOP incumbent Pat McCrory," he added, "the state might consider changing its nickname from the Tar Heel State to the tied-up state."

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